Ekiti State Governor Kayode Fayemi says the state is determined to make this year’s National Festival of Arts and Culture (NAFEST) a great experience. The chairman of the Nigeria Governors’

The Lagos State Government has extended the timeframe of the state judicial panel investigating SARS brutality by three months. The State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on October 19, 2020 had set

Heavy gunfire was heard near Niger’s presidency in the early hours of Wednesday, two days ahead of the swearing-in of president-elect Mohamed Bazoum, a Reuters reporter said. Heavy gunfire started

The Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) has said that in order to recover its huge debts from Arik Air, it injected over N375 billion in the airline and established

President Muhammadu Buhari’s medical trip to the United Kingdom has returned to the front burner the need for Nigerian hospitals to be equipped in line with global best practices, a

The International Criminal Court at the Hague on Wednesday upheld its acquittal of former Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo of multiple charges of crimes against humanity following the 2010-2011 post-election violence that killed some

Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the country’s service chiefs to put an end to banditry and kidnapping. The Nigerian leader gave the order on Tuesday at the presidential villa

Tanzanian authorities have confirmed that 45 people died in the stampede as mourners gathered to view the body of former President John Magufuli. The country’s police also said thirty-seven other

South African president, Cyril Ramaphosa, has told members of the country’s ruling ANC they must resign within 30 days of being charged with corruption or face suspension. Mr Ramaphosa was

Kenya’s Ministry of Health says the country is facing an acute shortage of oxygen in hospitals across the country. This has been caused by a rising number of Covid-19 cases

The presidency has announced that Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari will travel to the United Kingdom on Tuesday for medical check-up. Femi Adesina, President Buhari’s media aide in a statement on

Niger Republic has commenced its vaccination campaign against Covid-19 with China’s Sinopharm vaccine. Health workers, vulnerable people over 60, members of the defence and security forces, refugees and migrants, are among groups

Tanzania’s national carrier has posted a $26 million loss in the financial year 2019/20, a government audit has shown. “We have discovered that [the airline] has made losses of up

Drugmaker Johnson & Johnson on Monday said it will supply the African Union (AU) up to 400 million doses of its COVID-19 vaccine beginning in the third quarter as the

Egyptian authorities have ordered the arrest of eight people over last week’s fatal train collision that killed 18 people, the AFP news agency reports, citing the prosecutor’s office. “The prosecutor

Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday reassured of his administration’s commitment to fully utilise the enormous gas resources in the country to uplift the economy and drive industrialization. Mr Buhari

Sudan has signed a declaration of principles that calls for freedom of religion and cultural identity in a democratic state. The Sudanese government also said the agreement seeks to separate

Sarah Obama, step-grandmother of the former US President Barack Obama has died at a hospital in Kenya at the age of 99. Her daughter Marsat, told the local Daily Nation

A former Nigerian Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, has called on the federal government to sell off the country’s petroleum company and its refineries, saying the country is better off privatising

The governments of Katsina, Kaduna and Niger States have intensified efforts to free 109 abductees still in captivity, about three months after their abductions, investigation by THISDAY has shown. THISDAY